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The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to Dr Timothy Jones on timothy.jones@stir.ac.uk.

2016 July

There was no fixed way to identify the various architectural facets of medieval Gothic in the Georgian period. Indeed, a definitive ‘system’ to understand and interpret British medieval architecture was only arrived at in 1817 when Thomas Rickman published his An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England. A later edition, digitised by Google, is available here for you to consult. If you are particularly interested in understanding how those in late Georgian Britain understood and interpreted the phases of medieval Gothic architecture, you may wish to read, or skim

Hello, and welcome to the videos from the third week of our MOOC, The Gothic Revival, 1700–1850: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. We’ve got plenty of material in store for you, in a session devoted to an exploration of the Gothic literary aesthetic beyond the example of The Castle of Otranto. In these videos we will take you through some of the aesthetic foundations of early Gothic writing, including an account of the distinctions between horror and terror, the importance of Shakespeare to the Gothic aesthetic, and the culmination of the so-called ‘first wave’ of Gothic writing

Hello, and welcome to the archive of our videos from the second week of our AHRC-funded MOOC, The Gothic Revival, 1700-1850: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. In the first session we started to make inroads into the manifold meanings of the term ‘Gothic’ in the eighteenth century, including the term’s associations with the ancient Gothic tribe, its perceived associations with British history, the architecture of the middle ages, literature, fashion and modern sub-culture, and more. In this session we are going to be paying sustained attention to a short text that is often held to be t

On 19 May 2016 an event was held at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, to think and talk about the haunted house in French culture. Fanny Lacôte of the University of Stirling talked about the haunted house in French Gothic literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, while Guy Austin of the University of Newcastle talked about the haunted house in French cinema.
You can find a podcast of each talk here:
The Haunted House in French Culture – Welcome and Fanny Lacôte
The Haunted House in French Culture – Guy Austin
The event was funded by the

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The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to glennis.byron@stir.ac.uk or dale.townshend@stir.ac.uk